“We’re not going to give you the next seven years of Star Wars and $900 million in budget for three movies with that kind of performance. The only reason we wanted to hire you was that you had Game of Thrones hype behind you.”

... That you're the perfect man for the job! We offered Rian Johnson a trilogy after his masterful subversion of expectations and his destruction of established beloved characters. And the work you've done on GoT S8 is phenomenal, just more of what we've been looking for.